produced, off the Counter, and ran out of the Shop
Informant Followed the Prisoner down a part of
Princes Street into a Court which Leads into Lothbury,
and the Prisoner dropt a Bag upon the Ground, and
a Quantity of Silver was scattered about-Informant
saw the Prisoner stopt and secured in Lothbury, and
he this Informant picked up some of the Money
which dropt out of the bag, off the Ground, and he
verily believes the bag and Monies now produced to
be the same taken as aforesaid by the Prisoner
Informant says, tha the said bag and Monies are the
property of John Boldero< no role > william Gregg Barnston,< no role >
Richard Carter< no role > , John Snaith< no role > , and Trafford Barnston< no role >
Barkers and Copartners

And the said Thomas Gates< no role > and
Robert Harrison< no role > for themselves severally say that
after the Prisoner was apprehended, and as he was
going to the Poultry Compter, he said, that he had lived at
the An [..] Coffee House , thatit washis first Offence
necessity [..] that it was his first offence
and he was sorry for it, and that he had a Wife
and two Children Starving at home-the Prisoner begged very
hard for Mercyand

Taken and sworn at Guildhall
London the 11th Day of April
1782 before me}
John Hart< no role >

John Thornton< no role >
Thos Gates< no role >
W Harris [..]